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The Self Realization
the nature of the Soul. Ignorance associates the Soul with actions. Therefore ignorance is compared with darkness. Attachment and hatred are raised by ignorance and they enshackle the Soul in the worldly cycle of birth and death. At the dawn of knowledge the Soul and the non-sentient objects appear in their true colours and a realization of the Soul, as quite distinct from and unrelated to the body, results. The Soul becomes fearless and free from the cycle of birth and death.
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ते कारण छेदक दशा, मोक्षपंथ भवअंत ॥९९।। Je je karana bandhana, teha bandhano pantha, Te karana chhedaka dasha, mokshapantha bhava anta. 99 The bondage-causes whatsoever, Follow path of bondages, Destroy those causes, being clever, That path of freedom for all ages. 99
That which causes bondage is the path to bondage and that which causes liberation is the path to liberation. The Soul's state in which the causes of bondage are destroyed is the path of liberation and so it leads to the end of the Soul's cycle of birth and death.
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थाय निवृत्ति जेहथी, ते ज मोक्षनो पंथ ॥१००॥ Raga, dvesha, ajnana e, mukhya karmani grantha, Thaya nivrutti jehathi, te ja mokshano pantha, 100 Attachment, hatred, ignoranceAre three chief knots of bondages,
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